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1. (n.) faculty
an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action.
2. faculty
one of the powers of the mind, as memory, reason, or speech.
3. faculty
an inherent capability of the body.
4. faculty
the entire teaching and administrative force of a university, college, or school.
5. faculty
one of the departments of learning, as theology, medicine, or law, in a university.
6. faculty
the members of a learned profession.
7. faculty
a power or privilege conferred by the state, a superior, etc.
Etymology: (1350–1400; ME < AF, MF < L facultās ability, power)
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| Definition of 'faculty' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) faculty, mental faculty, module
one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind
2. (noun) staff, faculty
the body of teachers and administrators at a school
"the dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the university"
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1. (noun) faculty
the teachers in a college or university
We asked the faculty for their opinion.; faculty members
2. faculty
in some countries, a department of a college or university
***the English faculty
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) faculty
ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or capacity for any of the well-known classes of mental activity; psychical or soul capacity; capacity for any of the leading kinds of soul activity, as knowledge, feeling, volition; intellectual endowment or gift; power; as, faculties of the mind or the soul
2. (noun) faculty
special mental endowment; characteristic knack
3. (noun) faculty
power; prerogative or attribute of office
4. (noun) faculty
privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation
5. (noun) faculty
a body of a men to whom any specific right or privilege is granted; formerly, the graduates in any of the four departments of a university or college (Philosophy, Law, Medicine, or Theology), to whom was granted the right of teaching (profitendi or docendi) in the department in which they had studied; at present, the members of a profession itself; as, the medical faculty; the legal faculty, ect
6. (noun) faculty
the body of person to whom are intrusted the government and instruction of a college or university, or of one of its departments; the president, professors, and tutors in a college
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U.S. National Library of Medicine |
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1. faculty
The teaching staff and members of the administrative staff having academic rank in an educational institution.
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Sense: a power of the mind
the faculty of reason.
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 Afrikaans: verstandelike vermoë, gee |
 Arabic: قُدْرَه، قُوَّه |
 Bulgarian: способност |
 Brazilian: faculdade |
 Czech: schopnost |
 German: die Gabe |
 Danish: evne; anlæg |
 Greek: διανοητική ικανότητα |
 Spanish: facultad |
 Estonian: võime |
 Farsi: استعداد |
 Finnish: kyky |
 French: faculté |
 Hebrew: כּוֹשֶר |
 Hindi: योग्यता |
 Croatian: duševna, umna sposobnost |
 Hungarian: képesség |
 Indonesian: kekuatan pikiran |
 Icelandic: hæfileiki, gáfa |
 Italian: facoltà |
 Japanese: 能力 |
 Korean: (지적) 재능 |
 Lithuanian: sugebėjimas |
 Latvian: spēja |
 Malay: kekuatan fikiran |
 Dutch: vermogen |
 Norwegian: evne, anlegg |
 Polish: zdolność |
 Persian: استعداد |
 Pashto: فاكولته، استعداد، توان، و |
 Portuguese: faculdade |
 Romanian: facultate |
 Russian: способность |
 Slovak: schopnosť |
 Slovenian: sposobnost |
 Serbian: moć |
 Swedish: själs-, sinnesförmögenhet |
 Thai: ศักยภาพด้านจิตใจ |
 Turkish: zihinsel yetenek |
 Taiwanese: 能力 |
 Ukrainian: здатність |
 Urdu: ذہنی صلاحیت |
 Vietnamese: khả năng của trí óc |
 Chinese: 能力 |
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